Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

The place: HUGGATE.     Church dedication: ST. MARY.     Church type: Rectory in charge.

Area, 6,500 acres. Harthill wapentake. Wilton Beacon. -Population, 439; Church-room, 270 *1; Net value, £449. - In the town of Huggate the Lords Mauley held seven carucates of land (whereof sixteen made a knight's fee), and of these the Prior of Ellerton held one and a half carucate of German Hoy, and the Prior of Watre six and a half of the said German, and the Prior of St. Andrew's, York, five and a half oxgangs of him the said German, and the Prior of Watton two oxgangs of him, and St. John of Beverley two oxgangs, and the residue were held by the said German Hoy.

Likewise the Barons of Greystoke held in Huggate ten carucates of land, which the Prior of Watton and his tenants held in frankalmoigne.

The Church was given by Ralph Pa-ganell to the Abbey of St. Mary's, and at the Dissolution the patronage came to the Crown.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £40; Nova. Tax., £23. 6s. 8d.; in the King's Books, at £15 per annum ; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 378, at £100.

The Priory of Ellerton had lands here.

An Inclosure Act was passed 7th Geo. III.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1539 ; but no register can be found from 1625 to 1708. -Vide transcripts at York.

Charities:
Francis Barker's charity, by deed, dated 30th May 1726. £50 for relieving the poor not receiving parochial relief, and legally settled within the parish, and for placing to school such children as their parents cannot afford to keep there. By subsequent deeds (reciting the former), dated respectively 13th July 1726, and 2nd April 1750, the said sum of £50, and £10 in the hands of the trustees, were secured on a rent charge of £3 per annum out of the manor of Huggate, and all the messuages, lands, and hereditaments of one Francis Mosley, gentleman, payable at Midsummer and Christmas, and is applied as follows :-10s. per annum for schooling ; 40s. per annum among poor widows ; and 10s. to the overseers in respect of the £10 poor's stock.

Wood's dole, vide Pocklington. rent charge of 5s. per annum, applied with the poor's rates. The Commissioners recommended that the money be separately distributed among the poor of this parish. -Vide 9th Report, page 746.

Post town: Pocklington.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1227. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 33. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Hughete), pages 29. 223. Burton's Monasticon, page 261.

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Notes:
*1 In 1818, returned at 300.